Thieves broke into the Old Harbour Health Centre, in St Catherine, between Wednesday night and Thursday morning and stole equipment valued at approximately $50,000.

Among the items that were reported to have been stolen is, a television set, a stove and a cylinder of gas.

A number of persons who turned out for treatment at the Health Centre yesterday expressed a desire to see the building relocated.

Workers told THE WEEKEND STAR that they are fed up with thieves plaguing the health centre.

"In 2008, a four times them tear it down and last year them ease up but it look like them start again, " a visitor to the centre said.

The Old Harbour police said that investigations are under way.